The
Desiree Alliance conference organizers are committed to support
for representation and inclusiveness of cultural, racial,
economic, age, and gender identity. Please read our Diversity
Statement and join our efforts to build a respectful,
diverse, and strong sex worker movement.

Legislators
of this century have continued to fail to realise that prostitutes
are not a special breed of women with compulsions to indulge
in criminal behaviour... socially, culturally and psychologically
prostitute women pursue lifestyles little different to the millions
of other single working women, wives and mothers in the... community.
Popular mythology keeps prostitute women separated from other
women in people's minds, while the law, founded as it is in
19th century puritanism, keeps them separated in the social
order.

Desiree Alliance organizes conferences to provide
leadership and create space for sex workers and supporters to
come together to advocate for human, labor and civil rights for
all workers in the sex industry.

Sex workers have long been at the forefront of of promoting health
and safety, from peer-based sex education, to creating clinics,
to organizing 'bad date' lists and more. Health and safety is
central to sex work in so many different ways, as we strive towards
healthy, safe workplaces, emotional health, healthy relationships
within and outside of sex work, healthy attitudes, healthy laws
and policies and more. The 2013 Desiree Alliance conference will
focus on all forms of health in our lives and in our communities.

The Desiree Alliance conference is a forum for people who have
experience in sex work and sex trade and allies of sex workers.
Sex work includes working as an exotic dancer, hustler, webcam
model, street-based sex worker, massage worker, escort, prostitute,
tantric practitioner, sexological bodyworker, living with the
support of a sugar-daddy or a sugar-mama, having sex for housing
/ food / clothing, drugs, or having sex to get the money needed
to survive. Our membership base is made up of current and former
sex workers as well as activists that do not identify as sex workers
themselves, but advocate for sex worker rights. Desiree Alliance
is made up of women, men, LGBTQI persons, transgender persons,
herm-identity, Other, hetero, etc., and many of our members are
from (non) working class, low and middle income backgrounds.

The Desiree Alliance 2016 conference includes 5 tracks:
1. Academics and Policy 2. Activism 3. Arts, Entertainment and Media 4.
Business Development and 5. Harm Reduction and Outreach. We are open to
all sex work related proposals, and specifically welcome all submissions
and proposals having to do with these general concepts: sex worker art,
culture, and creative endeavors; positive aspects of sex work; harms that
result from bad or shortsighted policies; and benefits of current sex
worker-friendly policies. Contributors may be sex workers, academics,
and anyone else interested in contributing. We are eager to receive proposals
from sex workers themselves (you do not have to publicly self-identify),
people of color, migrants, and all genders. We are accepting proposals
from presenters until April 1st, 2016 . Visit http://www.desireealliance.org/conference/CFP.htm
for applications and instructions.

Call
for Performers for Thursday, July 14th, 2016"The Incredible
Edible Cabaret and After Party"plus "Art on The Quarter," July 13th

CALL TO ARTISTS: Do you have what it takes
to perform for the Desiree Conference! If you do please submit!
We are looking for performers, volunteers and a DJ for this year's
events!

We are looking for performers of various disciplines, (burlesque,
vocals, go-go boys/girls, stage kitten, dance, spoken word, walk
around showgirls/boys etc) volunteers to help the events run smoothly
(door person, stage manager and more) including a DJ, to entertain
attendees. Submit for either "Art on the Quarter" on Wednesday
July 13, 2016 or at the After Party,
on Thursday July 14, 2016.
Please send all inquiries, with a short description of your performance,
with stage requirements (video, audio, lighting, etc), plus a
brief bio with contact info & the night you're available (and
links to press stories & video clips if you have any) info@desireealliance.org

Donate*
to our 2016 Conference!

We are
a fiscally sponsored nonprofit project for Social
and Environmental Entrepreneurs so we can receive
tax-deductible contributions.*

Contribute to the Scholarship
Fund to assist with Desiree's commitment to social
justice, inclusion and leadership for all sex workers
from the most to least marginalized among us. These
social justice efforts are central to Desiree's
mission and to the sex worker movement in general.
ANY amount is greatly appreciated as a token of
your support for social justice in the sex workers
movement.

Donate
to the Desiree Alliance Conference
General Fundthrough PayPal

We greatly appreciate all contributions of any
amount. As you can imagine producing a national conference is
very expensive, Our registration fees are very low to encourage
attendance from diverse communities, so we rely on the support
of volunteers and contributors like you.Thank you so much for
supporting the Desiree Alliance 2016 Conference!

Desiree Alliance Leadership

The Desiree Alliance has been extremely busy in this last year
restructuring our organization from within. We are pleased to
announce our Strategic Committee members. The Strategic Committee
(SC) was selected to assist leadership in organizational and conference-planning
decisions of the Desiree Alliance. We strongly feel that these
individuals collectively exhibit solid representations of the
organization's mission for an all-inclusive member-base. Please
welcome these fantastic activists who by coming together in the
best interests of Desiree, assures that the future of the organization
remains true to our social justice principles.

Conference planning time is here! We will be seeking volunteers
to help plan and coordinate our 2016 conference. Please email
if you are interested in volunteering volunteer@desireealliance.org
Please add "Conference volunteer" in
the subject line.

We are seeking grant writers and fundraisers to help us prepare
for the conference. Interested people can email director@desireealliance.org
Please add "Grant Writer-Fundraiser"
in the subject line.

The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, sex worker-led
network of organizations, communities, and individuals across the US working
in harm reduction, direct services, political advocacy, and health services
for sex workers. We provide leadership and create space for sex workers and
supporters to come together to advocate for human, labour, and civil rights
for all workers in the sex industry.

*Donations:
Desiree Alliance is a Project of Social and Environmental
Entrepreneurs (SEE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit. Please make checks payable to
SEE/Desiree Alliance. If you are donating by credit card, please note that
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs, or a variation of SEE, will show
up on your credit card statement. Your donation is tax deductible. For further information call (702) 701-0055
or email info@desireealliance.org.

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